[[{"content_id":"122476","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Jews say no to AIPAC and Syria assault","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2013-09-14 16:29:41","content_summary":"100 renowned Jews from around the world signed on to a statement sharply critical of AIPAC lobbying for war on Syria","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"In three days 100 renowned Jews from around the world signed on to a statement sharply critical of AIPAC and other Jewish bodies lobbying for President Obama’s war resolution against Syria.  Hopefully people will refer to it in their efforts with the media, Congress, teach-ins and rallies.  It reads:\r\n\r\n\tWe Jews Oppose Calls for the U.S. to Bomb Syria\r\n\r\n\tWe are appalled that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is sending hundreds of people to lobby Congress to approve a resolution to bomb Syria. The media also reports that Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition are pushing hard for war. We don’t want it to be known that Jews stood silent as the powerful Israel lobby helped push the U.S.into a war in defiance of international law and American public opinion.\r\n\r\n\tThe Israeli government should stop pointing the finger and admit its own abuses of chemicals. It used white phosphorus in its terrible 2008 attack on Gaza. Over the years it has used tear gas recklessly and killed and sickened many, many Palestinians.\r\n\r\n\tThe Israeli government’s apparent belief that Jews are better off if Arab or Muslim countries are devastated one after another must be challenged and repudiated.\r\n\r\n\tPetition started 9\/9\/2013\r\n\r\n\tStanley Heller, host of The Struggle Video News, Connecticut\r\n\tLiz Aaronsohn, Ed.D., retired professor, daughter of a rabbi\r\n\tMedea Benjamin, Code Pink\r\n\tLenni Brenner, Hamden, Connecticut, Author, Zionism In The Age Of  The Dictators\r\n\tSeth Farber, New York\r\n\tTamar Pelleg-Sryck, Human Rights Lawyer, Tel Aviv\r\n\tTony Greenstein, UK\r\n\tDan Fischer, Bridgeport, CT\r\n\tAngela Godfrey-Goldstein, Advocacy Officer, The Jahalin Association, (Al Khan el Ahmar)\r\n\tAlisa Klein, Leeds, MA, Public Policy Consultant and anti-war activist\r\n\tMiriam (Goldberg) Swenson, New Jersey, retired professor\r\n\tJames Cohen, Paris, France, Professor, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-    Nouvelle)\r\n\tJudith B. Solomon, NYC, Women in Black\r\n\tJennifer Loewenstein, Wisconsin\r\n\tDiana Neslon, Greater London in the United Kingdom\r\n\tJoseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts         Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts\r\n\tDavid Finkel, managing editor of AGAINST THE CURRENT (affiliation for identification only)\r\n\tTsilli Goldenberg, Jerusalem, Israel\r\n\tDarlene Wallach, California, Justice for Palestinians\r\n\tSavvas Michael-Matsas, Greece\r\n\tSteve Krevisky, Congress of Conn. Community Colleges-4C’s\/SEIU\r\n\tIvy Sichel, The Hebrew University, Israel\r\n\tAram Saroyan,Los Angeles, writer\r\n\tJane Harries, Wales, United Kingdom, Coordinator for Fellowship of       Reconciliation in Wales\r\n\tDustin Friedman, New York\r\n\tAlice Rothchild, MD\r\n\tDorothy Naor, activist against the Colonization of Palestine, Israel\r\n\tDorothy M. Zellner, New York member, Jews Say No!\r\n\tDavid Makofsky, retired Anthropologist, Oakland, California\r\n\tTamar Yaron, Israel, Encounter-EMEM for Israel-Palestine peace    activities\r\n\tWarren Davis, Philadelphia, Exec. V.P. (retired), AFGE L. 2006\r\n\tStewart Robinson,Jewish Voice for Peace\r\n\tKaren Platt Albany CA JVP member\r\n\tBeverly Stuart, Seattle, WA\r\n\tAlice Kisch, JVP and am also a steering committee member of NorCal      FOSNA (Northern California Friends of Sabeel-North America\r\n\tSylvia Finzi (London)\r\n\tYom Shamash, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Independent Jewish Voices\r\n\tNeil Hertz, Ithaca, NY, Professor of Humanities, emeritus\r\n\tEthan Young, Brooklyn NY\r\n\tNed Rosch, Portland OR\r\n\tGilbert Wald, New Jersey, small businessman, Yale graduate 1972\r\n\tKen Cornet, Washington, CT USA\r\n\tSherna Berger Gluck – retired academic, activist\r\n\tJudith Kolokoff , Seattle WA., Human rights activist\r\n\tMichael Letwin, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return\r\n\tMarcia Bernstein, Brooklyn,retired social worker\r\n\tLenny Lapon, Springfield, MA, Educator\r\n\tMurray Polner, USA. editor-writer\r\n\tKimberly Dugan, West Hartford, Connecticut\r\n\tSeth Godfrey, New Haven, Ct., Business Reference Librarian-New Haven Free Public Library and Commissioner on the City of New Haven      Peace Commission\r\n\tHedy Epstein, St. Louis\r\n\tDavid Letwin, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return\r\n\tLyn Stein, San Francisco, CA\r\n\tLibby Frank, Philadelphia, Pa. Member Middle East Comm., Women’s     Int’l. League for Peace & Freedom\r\n\tPaula Orloff, Nevada City, retired teacher\r\n\tYoram Gelman, Tarrytown, NY — and Haifa, 1940\r\n\tPaola Canarutto, Italy\r\n\tLaura Myerson, WESPAC\r\n\tLillian Rosengarten, only American on the Jewish Boat To gaza in 2010,  psychoanalyst, poet and writer\r\n\tRael Nidess, M.D., Marshall, TX USA\r\n\tLeslie Lomas, Ph.D., Boulder, Colorado\r\n\tMike Kurland, Mansfield Center, Ct.\r\n\tMiriam Kurland, Mansfield Center, Ct.\r\n\tAram Ayalon, professor of Teacher Education, CCSU, New Britain\r\n\tElizabeth Block, Toronto, Canada\r\n\tKit Wainer, teacher, NYC\r\n\tDiane Isser, Philadelphia\r\n\tDr Brian Robinson, Retired NHS psychiatrist\r\n\tMilton Keynes, England UK\r\n\tMoshé Machover, Professor(emeritus), Israeli dissident\r\n\tAbe Hayeem, Chair, Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine          (APJP), UK\r\n\tRosamine Hayeem, London, UK\r\n\tCharles Post, NY, PSC-CUNY\/AFT 2234\r\n\tSherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization\r\n\tRobert Naiman, Urbana, Illinois, Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy\r\n\tCarol Walter, Farmington CT\r\n\tRichard Kuper, Highgate, London, UK\r\n\tMartin Oppenheimer, retired professor, Franklin Twp. N.J.\r\n\tHenry Norr, Berkeley, CA USA\r\n\tBeryl Maizels, Wembley, Middx., retired language teacher, JfJfP\r\n\tBatya Hecker, Austin, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights\r\n\tTikva Honig-Parnass, Israel, Jews for the Palestinian Right of Return\r\n\tHillel Tictin, Professor-Emeritus, University of Glasgow, Scotland\r\n\tRoland Rance, Britain\r\n\tInbar Tamari, Britain\r\n\tMalkah Feldman, MA, USA\r\n\tMyrna Fichtenbaum, Lawrenceville,NJ\r\n\tAnnie Zirin, Evanston, Il\r\n\tProfessor Dennis Kortheuer, Long Beach, Ca.\r\n\tEmily Chisefski Alma, Coordinator, Chico Palestine Action Group, Chico, CA\r\n\tJean Pauline, Bay Area Women in Black, Oakland, California\r\n\tTami Etziony, Bay Area Women in Black, Oakland CA\r\n\tJudith Bernstein, Munich, Germany\r\n\tCarl Rosenberg, Vancouver, BC, editor of Outlook: Canada’s Progressive          Jewish Magazine\r\n\tSid Shniad, Surrey British Columbia, Member, national steering      committee, Independent Jewish Voices Canada\r\n\tKamran Ghasri, Iranian-American Jewish from Los Angeles, active with   Israel Divestment campaign www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org,     CA Green Party\r\n\tJudith Weisman Toronto Ontario, Independent Jewish Voices\r\n\tDorothy Field, Victoria BC Canada\r\n\tSam Bernstein, Seattle, WA\r\n\tSarah Wolf\r\n\tPaula Friedland Panzarella, New Haven, CT, poet and peace activist\r\n\tSherry Gorelick, Women in Black Union Square, NYC, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University\r\n\tPhyllis Bloom, L. Ac., Woodstock, NY\r\n\tMarian Feinberg, Environmental and Social Justice Activist\r\n\tSid Frankel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada\r\n\tMarcia Almey, Ottawa, ON","content_html":"

\r\n\tIn three days 100 renowned Jews from around the world signed on to a statement sharply critical of AIPAC and other Jewish bodies lobbying for President Obama’s war resolution against Syria.  Hopefully people will refer to it in their efforts with the media, Congress, teach-ins and rallies.  It reads:<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tWe Jews Oppose Calls for the U.S. to Bomb Syria<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tWe are appalled that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is sending hundreds of people to lobby Congress to approve a resolution to bomb Syria. The media also reports that Sheldon Adelson and the Republican Jewish Coalition are pushing hard for war. We don’t want it to be known that Jews stood silent as the powerful Israel lobby helped push the U.S.into a war in defiance of international law and American public opinion.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Israeli government should stop pointing the finger and admit its own abuses of chemicals. It used white phosphorus in its terrible 2008 attack on Gaza. Over the years it has used tear gas recklessly and killed and sickened many, many Palestinians.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe Israeli government’s apparent belief that Jews are better off if Arab or Muslim countries are devastated one after another must be challenged and repudiated.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tPetition started 9\/9\/2013<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tStanley Heller, host of The Struggle Video News, Connecticut
\r\n\tLiz Aaronsohn, Ed.D., retired professor, daughter of a rabbi
\r\n\tMedea Benjamin, Code Pink
\r\n\tLenni Brenner, Hamden, Connecticut, Author, Zionism In The Age Of  The Dictators
\r\n\tSeth Farber, New York
\r\n\tTamar Pelleg-Sryck, Human Rights Lawyer, Tel Aviv
\r\n\tTony Greenstein, UK
\r\n\tDan Fischer, Bridgeport, CT
\r\n\tAngela Godfrey-Goldstein, Advocacy Officer, The Jahalin Association, (Al Khan el Ahmar)
\r\n\tAlisa Klein, Leeds, MA, Public Policy Consultant and anti-war activist
\r\n\tMiriam (Goldberg) Swenson, New Jersey, retired professor
\r\n\tJames Cohen, Paris, France, Professor, University of Paris 3 (Sorbonne-    Nouvelle)
\r\n\tJudith B. Solomon, NYC, Women in Black
\r\n\tJennifer Loewenstein, Wisconsin
\r\n\tDiana Neslon, Greater London in the United Kingdom
\r\n\tJoseph Levine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts         Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
\r\n\tDavid Finkel, managing editor of AGAINST THE CURRENT (affiliation for identification only)
\r\n\tTsilli Goldenberg, Jerusalem, Israel
\r\n\tDarlene Wallach, California, Justice for Palestinians
\r\n\tSavvas Michael-Matsas, Greece
\r\n\tSteve Krevisky, Congress of Conn. Community Colleges-4C’s\/SEIU
\r\n\tIvy Sichel, The Hebrew University, Israel
\r\n\tAram Saroyan,Los Angeles, writer
\r\n\tJane Harries, Wales, United Kingdom, Coordinator for Fellowship of       Reconciliation in Wales
\r\n\tDustin Friedman, New York
\r\n\tAlice Rothchild, MD
\r\n\tDorothy Naor, activist against the Colonization of Palestine, Israel
\r\n\tDorothy M. Zellner, New York member, Jews Say No!
\r\n\tDavid Makofsky, retired Anthropologist, Oakland, California
\r\n\tTamar Yaron, Israel, Encounter-EMEM for Israel-Palestine peace    activities
\r\n\tWarren Davis, Philadelphia, Exec. V.P. (retired), AFGE L. 2006
\r\n\tStewart Robinson,Jewish Voice for Peace
\r\n\tKaren Platt Albany CA JVP member
\r\n\tBeverly Stuart, Seattle, WA
\r\n\tAlice Kisch, JVP and am also a steering committee member of NorCal      FOSNA (Northern California Friends of Sabeel-North America
\r\n\tSylvia Finzi (London)
\r\n\tYom Shamash, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Independent Jewish Voices
\r\n\tNeil Hertz, Ithaca, NY, Professor of Humanities, emeritus
\r\n\tEthan Young, Brooklyn NY
\r\n\tNed Rosch, Portland OR
\r\n\tGilbert Wald, New Jersey, small businessman, Yale graduate 1972
\r\n\tKen Cornet, Washington, CT USA
\r\n\tSherna Berger Gluck – retired academic, activist
\r\n\tJudith Kolokoff , Seattle WA., Human rights activist
\r\n\tMichael Letwin, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
\r\n\tMarcia Bernstein, Brooklyn,retired social worker
\r\n\tLenny Lapon, Springfield, MA, Educator
\r\n\tMurray Polner, USA. editor-writer
\r\n\tKimberly Dugan, West Hartford, Connecticut
\r\n\tSeth Godfrey, New Haven, Ct., Business Reference Librarian-New Haven Free Public Library and Commissioner on the City of New Haven      Peace Commission
\r\n\tHedy Epstein, St. Louis
\r\n\tDavid Letwin, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
\r\n\tLyn Stein, San Francisco, CA
\r\n\tLibby Frank, Philadelphia, Pa. Member Middle East Comm., Women’s     Int’l. League for Peace & Freedom
\r\n\tPaula Orloff, Nevada City, retired teacher
\r\n\tYoram Gelman, Tarrytown, NY — and Haifa, 1940
\r\n\tPaola Canarutto, Italy
\r\n\tLaura Myerson, WESPAC
\r\n\tLillian Rosengarten, only American on the Jewish Boat To gaza in 2010,  psychoanalyst, poet and writer
\r\n\tRael Nidess, M.D., Marshall, TX USA
\r\n\tLeslie Lomas, Ph.D., Boulder, Colorado
\r\n\tMike Kurland, Mansfield Center, Ct.
\r\n\tMiriam Kurland, Mansfield Center, Ct.
\r\n\tAram Ayalon, professor of Teacher Education, CCSU, New Britain
\r\n\tElizabeth Block, Toronto, Canada
\r\n\tKit Wainer, teacher, NYC
\r\n\tDiane Isser, Philadelphia
\r\n\tDr Brian Robinson, Retired NHS psychiatrist
\r\n\tMilton Keynes, England UK
\r\n\tMoshé Machover, Professor(emeritus), Israeli dissident
\r\n\tAbe Hayeem, Chair, Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine          (APJP), UK
\r\n\tRosamine Hayeem, London, UK
\r\n\tCharles Post, NY, PSC-CUNY\/AFT 2234
\r\n\tSherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization
\r\n\tRobert Naiman, Urbana, Illinois, Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy
\r\n\tCarol Walter, Farmington CT
\r\n\tRichard Kuper, Highgate, London, UK
\r\n\tMartin Oppenheimer, retired professor, Franklin Twp. N.J.
\r\n\tHenry Norr, Berkeley, CA USA
\r\n\tBeryl Maizels, Wembley, Middx., retired language teacher, JfJfP
\r\n\tBatya Hecker, Austin, Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights
\r\n\tTikva Honig-Parnass, Israel, Jews for the Palestinian Right of Return
\r\n\tHillel Tictin, Professor-Emeritus, University of Glasgow, Scotland
\r\n\tRoland Rance, Britain
\r\n\tInbar Tamari, Britain
\r\n\tMalkah Feldman, MA, USA
\r\n\tMyrna Fichtenbaum, Lawrenceville,NJ
\r\n\tAnnie Zirin, Evanston, Il
\r\n\tProfessor Dennis Kortheuer, Long Beach, Ca.
\r\n\tEmily Chisefski Alma, Coordinator, Chico Palestine Action Group, Chico, CA
\r\n\tJean Pauline, Bay Area Women in Black, Oakland, California
\r\n\tTami Etziony, Bay Area Women in Black, Oakland CA
\r\n\tJudith Bernstein, Munich, Germany
\r\n\tCarl Rosenberg, Vancouver, BC, editor of Outlook: Canada’s Progressive          Jewish Magazine
\r\n\tSid Shniad, Surrey British Columbia, Member, national steering      committee, Independent Jewish Voices Canada
\r\n\tKamran Ghasri, Iranian-American Jewish from Los Angeles, active with   Israel Divestment campaign www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org<\/a>,     CA Green Party
\r\n\tJudith Weisman Toronto Ontario, Independent Jewish Voices
\r\n\tDorothy Field, Victoria BC Canada
\r\n\tSam Bernstein, Seattle, WA
\r\n\tSarah Wolf
\r\n\tPaula Friedland Panzarella, New Haven, CT, poet and peace activist
\r\n\tSherry Gorelick, Women in Black Union Square, NYC, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
\r\n\tPhyllis Bloom, L. Ac., Woodstock, NY
\r\n\tMarian Feinberg, Environmental and Social Justice Activist
\r\n\tSid Frankel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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